Prompt 1: Write about two things that are going well in your classroom that you are proud of. Write two things in your classroom that you wish to improve. What steps will you take to improve these items?

For the most part, distractions are decreasing and attendance is improving within the classroom. Wish I could say it's all because of adjustments I did, but that's far from the truth. The students who know the limit amount of days they are allowed to be absent already met the limit and with almost a lifeless stare stagger into class. On the bright side, distractions decreased due to modifying classwork that originally wasn't meant to be evaluated for a grade and now is because students openly opted to avoid participating in it. 

Though those two areas have improved, verbal class participation when instructing and interaction with other students is much desired to improve. In-class relevance to immediate outside consumer and supplier behavior is a daily goal for me and it is difficult to get students to engage discussion in all subjects of economics; the U.S.'s Federal Reserve system of controlling economic inflation,expansion, and contraction via monetary policy tops the list as the quickest way to have students daydream. The class assignments can be worked on individually and in groups, but none communicate to even double check if their answers.

Possible ways to fix those issues are to have engaging activities that explain the Fed's ability to control the economy in more interactive way and create class activities that force students to communicate with one another. I definitely do not want to cruise over the material and skip to the next subject that is probably more relevant to young adults and thus naturally more engaging.